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22 The tops of the pillars were shaped like lilies. In this way the work for the pillars was finished.

The Sea

23 He made the sea of cast metal. It was round, fifteen feet from rim to rim. It was seven and a half feet high. Its circumference was forty-five feet. 24 Under its rim all the way around there were round, gourd-shaped ornaments, one every two inches, all the way around the sea.[a] The ornaments were in two rows, cast as one piece with the sea.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 7:24 The meaning of this sentence is uncertain. The parallel in 2 Chronicles 4:3 says the ornaments were cattle.